Hi folks. Here are some orphan pictures I've taken that don't belong to any set. They were taken over the course of the last couple of years as I was going about my normal daily business (ie: not during a photo shoot). Most of them were taken using a cheap-o pocket camera I carry with me sometimes. A few are from my cell phone camera.
There's no rhyme or reason to them, so here goes...
M Street, Georgetown:
Also in Georgetown:
Random buildings downtown:
Sharky! This is the Discovery Channel headquarters building in Silver Spring, MD. Each year during their Shark Week TV event they turn their building into a shark:
These next three are from rarely-seen
Senate Park:
City Hall:
These next 6 are from downtown Rockville, MD.
This is the library in downtown Rockville (which is super nice for a smallish city library).
This is from Veteran's Plaza in downtown Silver Spring, MD:
The blue and red flag below is that of Montgomery County, MD, the county that includes Rockville and Silver Spring (and Bethesda and Gaithersburg, which are also pretty well-known):
Riggs Street in DC, which is in either northern Dupont Circle or southern Adams Morgan, depending where you draw the neighborhood border:
This chick takes her exercising seriously, apparently. Picture from the Adams Morgan neighborhood:
Same corner of Adams Morgan, zoomed out. Note the bikesharing dock at left.
Houseboats docked at the Southwest waterfront:
Downtown's Franklin Square. The office building with the spires is the tallest commercial building in DC. They got an exception to the height limit to build those spires.
The new Tenleytown neighborhood branch library. I'm not a fan.
Woodrow Wilson High School:
Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown is an old Civil War-era fort. It occupies the top of DC's tallest hill. The top of the tower is higher than the top of the Washington Monument.
Mixed use Best Buy, also in Tenleytown:
Necessary shot of the National Mall. I rarely take pictures of this stuff, since it's so easily available everywhere you look.
This little-known spot is probably never before seen on SSP. It's called the Spanish Steps, and is where 22nd Street, NW becomes too steep to continue as a street.
Crystal City, VA:
Crystal City was built at the height of the urban renewal / towers-in-the-park period. It has been slowly recovering, by the addition of small-scale infill and ground-floor renovations. The sidewalks aren't great, but they're not so barren as they once were either:
DC has a lot of food trucks. The most famous and popular is the one that sells lobster. The line to get lunch there is often a block long:
This is one of my favorite rowhouse blocks, Q Street in Logan Circle. I'm a fan of pastel painted brick.
Is the purple entrance an independent property or part of one of the neighbors? I have no idea.
No drive through at this McDonald's on U Street, but they do have the urban equivalent:
Oh you crazy vandals:
McPherson Square, downtown:
F Street, downtown. The building on the left is the Verizon Center, where the NBA Wizards and NHL Capitals play. Also note bikesharing.
This love sign was an "art" installation that was actually a tourism ad for the state of Virginia ("Virginia is for lovers"). It was removed after Virginia admitted it was an ad.
These next three show the riverwalk in downtown Frederick, MD:
Ongoing construction of Sarbanes Station, better known as the Silver Spring Transit Center. When finished it will combine Metro, commuter rail, light rail, local bus, commuter bus, intercity bus, taxi, regional trail, bikesharing, and kiss & ride facilities all at a single location.
Here is more information.
Vertical parking facility in Ballston, VA. To get a car from an upper level all cars in the column immediately below it have to be moved:
Taxation without representation. American democracy doesn't extend to DC residents.
Yay transit!
Boo tourists! At least it's not a fake trolley.
Nevermind.
The 15th Street cycle track. Excellent.
Eastern Market Metro station lit up in red white & blue. This isn't actually intentional. It's just that they happen to have had equipment with colored lights on the platform that day.
Forest Glen Metro station is very unusual. Each platform has its own tunnel. Want to go the other direction? Walk through a little connecting tunnel.
L'Enfant VRE station:
Gaithersburg MARC station:
Very multimodal-y:
Squawk squawk squawk!
The end.
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